BATH: SOCIAL HISTORY 1680-1850 somerset england

ISBN 071000639X

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

This book is about the men and women who actually lived in Bath and who, as consumers and producers, transformed it from a tiny Cotswolds town built in the vernacular style, into a uniquely spacious Palladian city devoted to the well-being and leisure activities of the wealthy classes. As well as describing these wealthy visitors it is concerned with the labouring populaton, landowners and peasants, stockjobbers and entrepreneurs whose activities and aspirations shaped the development of the city. Bath gives the impression of being a planned urban Utopia, whereas in fact it was planned by no one, not even by John Wood, its most famous architect, but rather emerged as a response to the needs of commerce, industry and its growing working class.

466 pages. Hard cover with NO dust jacket. Ex-Library.

Weight = 1.2 kg

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